Holder for meat-broilers.



PATENTED JUNE 14, 19 04.

I. M; HALL. HOLDER FOR MEAT BROILERS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 25. 1901.

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UNITED STATES Patented June 14, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

HOLDER FoR MJEAT-BROILERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 762,401, dated. June 14,1904.

Application filed September25,1901. serial No. 76,565. \NO model.)

To all whom, it may concern.- l

Be it known that I, IsAAo M. HALL, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Haverhill, in the county of Essex and State of Mas-.saehusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inHolders for Meat-Broilers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of devices which consist of anopen-bottomed oven or chamber which is adapted to be placed over anopening in a stove and to support a meatbroiler therein.

My invention has for itsprincipal object the production of a portableoven of the character above mentioned which is adapted to permit theready introduction and removal of an ordinary meat-broilerand in whichthe broiler may be moved to different elevations without removing thesame.

For an understanding of my invention reference is made to theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 isa perspective view of mydevice with the parts shown in one of their positions. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation thereof. Figs. 3 and 4 are cross-sectional views on the linesm m and y y of Fig. 5, respectively, the parts being shown in Fig. 4 inthe same position as in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a front elevation.

The oven 1 is preferably cubical in form and constructed of sheetmetal.- Its bottom is provided with a circular opening 2, which isadapted to correspond to the size of the opening in the stove over whichit is to be used. Two angle-brackets 3 and 4 are secured to the sides ofthe chamber and extend in front thereof, forming guid eways in whichadoor 5 is adapted to slide. The lower edge of said door is bent about arod 6, the ends of which extend through slots 7, formed in said brackets3 and 4. A cast-metal door 8, having a weighted bottom, is pivoted tosaid rod 6 by hinges 9 directly below andelose to said sliding door 5.Said door 8 is provided with two notches or openings 11 in its loweredge and is arranged to swing freely in either direction between thesides of a rectangular-shaped opening 10, which is formed in the frontwall 12 of the chamber. A door 13. is pivoted by pintles 14 in brackets15, which are secured to the sides of the chamber near its front end,and links 16 are pivoted at 19 to each end of said door 13 and to theends of rod 6 outside the brackets 3 and 4. Two shelves or brackets 17and 18 are secured at different elevations to the inner side of the rearwall of the chamber.

Having described the construction of my device, the operation thereofand manner in which itis used are as follows: \Vhen the parts are in theposition shown in Figs. 1 and 4, the upper edge of the sliding door 5 isslightly above the lower edge of the portion of the front wall 12 whichis above the opening 10, the rod 6 is supported in the lower endsofslots 7, the door 13 is in a substantially horizontal position, and thedoor 8 is supported so that its lower edge just clears door 13 and thelower edge of the opening 10 in the front wall 12. The oven having beenplaced over the opening in the stove, the end of the broiler B ispressed against the door 8, swinging the same inwardly, (see dottedlines in Fig. 4,) so that its inner end may rest on the lower shelf 18and its handle rest on door 13, beneath and within notches 11, asindicated in Fig. 1. As the oven completely closes the stove-opening andas thereare various open joints in the face side of the oven, the draftof the stove will cause air to be drawn from the room into the oven andup the chimney, preventing the meat from being scorched by burning fatand preventing the smoke from the fire from coming in contact with themeat or from escaping into the room. V hen it is necessary to turn thebroiler, it is simply drawn back out of the oven, the door 8 swingingoutwardly to per mit its ready removal. Then it is turned and againinserted. If it is found that the fire is too hot for the meat when thebroiler is in its lowest position, its inner end is raised until itrests on the upper shelf 17 and then the handle is raised, causing thedoors 5 and 8 to slide upwardly to the position shown in Figs. 2, 3, and5. The upward movement of rod 6 causes the links 16 to draw the door 13up to the vertical position shown in said figures, the width of the door13 being just sufficient to close the space below the door 8 and itslength being sufficient to permit its ends to engage the front wall 12of the oven. The pivots 6 and 19 are so arranged with respect to pivot14 when the door 13 is swung up to its vertical position, so that itrests against the front wall 12, that a straight line through thecenters of pivots 6 and 19 will pass between the center of pivot 1 1and'the wall 12. hen,therefore.the parts are in the position shown inFigs. 2, 3, and 5, the weight of doors 5 and 8 will act to hold door 13in its upright or closed position. When the parts are in this position,the broiler may be readily removed as before without throwing down thedoor 13; but if it is again desired to throw down this door the broileris simply lowered, so that it strikes the top thereof as it is removed,drawing the upper edge of the door forwardly until the center lines oflinks 16 swing outside of pivot 14, and then the doors will all drop tothe position shown in Figs. 1 and 4.

I am aware that prior to my invention a device of this character hasbeen produced which was provided with a swinging door that was adaptedto be swung inwardly to provide a draft; but so far as 1 am aware I amthe first to provide a door which is adapted to swing freely eitherinwardly or outwardly, so as to permit the ready insertion and removalof the broiler and which normally hangs in a vertical position, so as toshut off the draft to the oven in which the broiler is supported.

It will be apparent that various changes may be made in the constructionherein described without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

1. A device of the character described comprising an open-bottomedchamber, an opening in the front wall thereof, a sliding door which isarranged to close the upper portion of said opening when in its lowestposition, a gravity-door which is pivoted to the lower end of saidsliding door and is adapted to close the lower portion of said openingwhen said sliding door is in said lower position, and to close the upperportion thereof when said sliding door is in its highest position, saidgravity-door being adapted to swing in either direction from theposition in which it isheld by gravity, a swinging door which is pivotedbelow said doors, links which connect said swinging door to said slidingdoor, two shelves in said chamber which are adapted to support the innerend of a broiler at different elevations, said swinging door beingadapted to be swung up by said links so as to close the lower portion ofsaid front opening when said gravity-door is raised so as to close theupper portion thereof.

2. A device of the character described comprising a chamber having anopening in its bottom, an opening in its front wall through which abroiler may be passed, means for supporting the broiler in said chamberat different elevations, a sliding and a swinging door which are adaptedto cooperate to close said front opening when the broiler is in oneposition, and a third door which is connected to said sliding door andis adapted to cooperate with said swinging door to close said frontopening when the broiler is in a difierent position.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

ISAAC M. HALL.

\Vitnesses:

LoUIs H. HARRIMAN, G. EDWARD UCKER.

